Star Media Group

Star Media Group is a leading portfolio of media businesses, centered around the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily print newspaper, thestar.com, one of the most-visited newspaper websites in Canada.

Star Media Group also includes the Metro daily print editions in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax, as well as an interest in Sing Tao Daily, the largest Chinese-language daily newspaper in Canada. In addition, Star Media Group includes Toronto.com, Torstar Syndication Services and The Kit, a print and digital publication focused on beauty, fashion and wellness.

Recent Highlights:

In January, 2016, the Toronto Star entered into an agreement with Transcontinental Printing to print the Toronto Star. Services are expected to commence in July, 2016. The decision will result in the closure of the Toronto Star's existing printing plant in Vaughan..

In 2015 the Toronto Star launched Toronto Star Touch, an innovative new tablet app based on the La Presse+ news platform technology. Toronto Star Touch was rated one of the best new apps of 2015 by Apple.

Effective January 1, 2016, the Olive Media partnership ceased operations and the Toronto Star assumed responsibility for its digital advertising sales previously handled by Olive Media. Olive Media operated as a partnership between the Toronto Star and La Presse starting in January, 2007.

In 2015, Toronto Star journalists were honoured for their reporting and photography, winning two prestigious National Newspaper Awards.

Founded in 1892, the Toronto Star is Canada’s largest daily newspaper and is read in print and across desktop, mobile and tablet platforms by more than 6 million readers every week. Online, thestar.com is one of the most-visited newspaper websites in Canada.

Joseph E. Atkinson, the Star’s legendary publisher from 1899 to 1948, developed strong views on both the role of a large city newspaper and the editorial principles it should espouse. These values and beliefs now form what are called the Atkinson Principles. For more than a century, they have provided the intellectual foundation on which the Star has operated and have given the paper its distinctive voice.

Metro is the most-read free daily newspaper brand in Canada. Our Metro portfolio includes print and digital products in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. Metro is also published in Halifax in partnership with Transcontinental Media G.P.

Metro Toronto, which began operation in 2000, has the second-highest weekday readership among daily newspapers in the Greater Toronto Area, second only to the Toronto Star. Across our print editions in seven Canadian cities, Metro has more than 1 million readers daily.

In addition, Sing Tao's Canadian media group is involved in online publishing, printing, outdoor advertising, radio, magazine publishing and enterprise software development services.

Sing Tao, in partnership with Fairchild Media Group, operates A1 Chinese Radio, which produces more than 40 hours of Chinese-language programming a week targeting the Chinese audience in the Greater Toronto Area. Sing Tao also operates the dushi.ca website. Its news, lifestyle and leisure content is published in simplified Chinese characters and targets users from the growing mainland Chinese community in Canada. Sing Tao’s digital portfolio also includes singtao.ca, BigCityPerks.com and ccue.ca. Sing Tao also publishes annual Chinese-language business telephone directories in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton.

Torstar holds an approximate 50% interest in the operations of Sing Tao’s Canadian media group.